disemboweling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of disembowel

noun

1. The act by which somebody is disemboweled.

   “He recalls that experience in a smooth, speedy story, “The Monster Mash,” but these days he’s not sure he liked it too much — the disembowelings, the coolers of brains, the stench of decomposing corpses (“the smell of job security,” as one pathologist puts it) terrify him.”